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Language 0141041757 
Nora Webster. 
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Publication year: 2015
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: London : Penguin Books, 2015.
ISBN: 0141041757 9780141041759 (pbk): 7.99
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Originally published: London: Viking, 2014.
It is the 1960s and Nora Webster is living with her two young sons in a small town on the east coast of Ireland. The love of her life, Maurice, has just died so she must work out how to forge a new life for herself. As Nora returns to memories of the happiness of her early marriage, something more painful begins to intrude: memories of her own mother and what brought about the terrifying distance between them.
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320 pages.
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Reading Group review. I found it rather disappointing. Having read Toibin's 'Testament of Mary', which was brilliant and thought-provoking and made a real impression on me, this novel didn't reach the same heights. It is, nevertheless, well-written and clearly parts of it are autobiographical, but it lacks passion and it is a little pedestrian.
12/10/17
Shropshire
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